Tallulah

Where Tallulah comes from

Borrowed from Cherokee Tallulah, name of a river in Georgia. See etymology section of Wikipedia article Tallulah River.
— Wiktionary's entry for Tallulah
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1902
    Tallulah Bankhead born
    American actress
  2. 1917
    First appearance
    #4,083 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1997
    Tallulah Greive born
    Scottish actress
  4. 2023
    Peak, #810
    345 babies named Tallulah — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Tallulah Bankhead · American actress, 1902–1968
  • Tallulah Greive · Scottish actress, born 1997
  • Tallulah Harlech · English model and actress, born 1988
  • Tallulah Haddon · actress, artist and model, born 1997
  • Tallulah Evans · British actress, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.